Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-01-20
IN GENERAL.

Secretary Lamar hooohtPehVN ~
bride, returned to Washington on satur'
day. n
Charles Warner, prominent pork
dealer o. Troy, N. u. the preaident OF
the National State Bank Of that city,
dropped dead Of apoplexy on Saturday
night.
Furnace No. 8, of tho Chestnut Hill Iron
Ore Company of Columbia, Pa, was put
in operation on Friday, after several
months suspension, during which It was
rebuilt.
The remains of Caleb b. Ice, of Pen |
field. ILL.,, were last week at TRfiin, D.,
recognized by his father, OF Washington;
W. Va, as among those OF the victims OF
the Republic disaster.
The ice in the Delaware river at Belvi-
dere,N j., is l5 inches thick. The streams
are SO low that all the mills are CLOSED.
The Yard Paper Ware Works have been
closed for two weeka
The Boston breaker at Plymouth, 20
owned by the Delaware IL Hudson Goal
Company. was burned Sunday morning
Loss, SS5, 900. About 400 men and boys
are thrown out of work.
The steamship Seminole on Saturday,
sailed frrm Charleston, S. O., for New
Yerk, with los tons of pig iron from Bir-
minRham, Ala. This is the first cargo OF
pig iron ever shipped from Charleston.
The Rev. Robert Fulton, $. j., Proyin..
cial of the Jesuit Order in New York and
Maryland, has been ordered by the gem
eral of the order in this country to visit
ell the Jesuit establishments in Ireland.
The Rev. MIR. Houghton, rector of st.
Johns Protestant Episcopal Church In
Yonkers, New York, has resigned. He has
| accepted call TO the Teotorship of the
Episcopal church at Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Botetourt county, Va, is excited over
a reported discovery of gold and silver
deposits on the line of the Shenandoah
Valley railroad. Assays range from SIG
per ton for surface rock to 300 at depth
Of 10 feet.
Prof. Edward 0lney, who for thirty
years has occupied the chair of mathe-
inatics in the University of Michigan, was
found dead in bed Sunday morning at
Anp Arbor. Heart disease was the cause.
He was the author of many standard
works on mathematics.
During small fire In the cellar of 9
dwelling in Pittsburg yesterday morning
week, Chief of the Fire Department Evans
Assistant Chief Steele, and FiremeI
Haupt, Graham, Milligan and Benn.
were severely burned by sudden ex
plo6ion of natural gas. A leak in tn
pipes is supposed TO have been the cause
The schooner Parallel, from San Fran
cisco for Astoria, was driven on the rock
l ntlApfln Aha fAf,lAaY. fIota mn Anfa1rAal
night, and about an hour afterward
about 100, 600 pounds of powder, whicl
formed part of her cargo, blew up
wrecking the Cliff House, the life-savin
station and other buildings in the neigh
borhood. Three of the lite-saving Gre,
who had remained on the beach wer
severely injured.
The secretary of the PennRylvani
board of agriculture, accompanied b
two veterinarians, Thursday visited tw
large herds of cattle in tho lower en-
Of Lancaster county, which Unite
States surgeon had reported TO the nationi
and Maryland authorities as sutfetin
from pleuropneumonia. The secretar
found that the cattle were only Athlete
with common bronchial affection. II
says there is not case OF pleuropnel
monia III Lancaster county ut present.
More than 1928 600 cubic yards of lin,
stone and slate rock ON tue bank of III
Canadian side OF the Niagara river, net
the Horseshoe Falls, fell Thursday wit
4 crash that was heard and felt fol mil,
around. The break has made a consi,
cradle change in the appearance of IL
bank, and has exposed the dark chasl
behind the fall. The mass OF rock TIL
fell was 60 feet wide by over 100 lon
and 40 feet deep. The fall from Il
s main rock has left perpendicular wal
The tremendous weight of ice which hi
accumulated during the past three week
with the steady frosty weather and 10
water, was the cause of the break
n A Missouri Pacific passenger train vi
thrown from the track near Dunbar, Neh
Tuesday night week, by the removal of
rail, and James B. Davitt, the enginee
was killed Frank o. Chenewith, expire
messenger, being dangerously, if not +
tally, injured. Two other train men al
Il II passengers were injured, but not me
tally. Among the injured is George Co,
of Philadelphia. All the injured we
litken TO Atcllson and cared fOI ut a hoi
4 by the surgeon Of the road. The rail "
removed by tSe or more malicious IN
4 as farmer, who happened to be up, 81
1 in the moonlight two men hastily lea
i the spot as the train was approaching, a
an examination showed that the spill
u and fish plates had been removed, q
- close by clawbst, belonging to the Bl
- lington & Missouri River road was four
. The tool house of the Burlington II NJ
Al souri, River road ut Dunbar was o.
81 found broken open. The wreck occurr
81 on q curve where the road rounds Bhs
III bluff and the entire train was turned o.
rs into the river. Two men, who were
" Tuesday turned out Of the depot, at d,
Ia bar, are suspected.
III Harry Levan, a well. connected and W
81 to-do young mau, was arrested In Readi
~ Friday, and held In $4,000 bull on
h charge Of setting fire to his grandiath,
b stable, which was burned about week a
~ General Master Workman Powderly
h dressed crowded meeting, IN Nrwl
H Friday night. Hesaid women who do m,
work should receive mems pay; adyl
81 temperance, and said that il the pr6ct
"a OF the order of tle Knights OF Labor "
b observed anarchism would not exist.
The body OF Oliver Sleeper, supposed
n | have been one OF the victims Of Mrs. Ro
n son, the alleged murderess OF Sometv
ID | 1dHSucuustILst WIS bSnumBu friday,
n examination by medical experts. Thi
II the seventh body that has been dlsintel
Il for the same purpose and In the other
n cases large quantities Of arsenic havu
found. IL arsenic Is found in Slseper5 b
~? the Investigation will continue, and Of
bodies will ba exhumed. II Is alleged
= Mrs. Robinson poisoned Sleeper in orit
M obtain possession OF some OF his prnpe
The state live stock commissioner
llliL OILS Friday published q reply to {
missioner Colman of the agricultural
p4rtInent at Washington. They impnte
GOlfnan malicious und vicious motlyel
big attack, and cluim that the discover
plenropneumonia In Illinois was du
/. them, and that the government blirea
10 agriculture never discovered case In
state. They allege that Colman's con
III nicntion Is an entire misrepresantatiC
sill their acts, and that his complaints col
SI malicious Interpretations for the lurpo
Ils dpceiving the public. They claim thu,
SSl state board has done more Ia 80 da
~ suppress pleurnpneumonia with LIN
appropriations, than the department
tile agriculture bas dome In more than
ced aad tialf yeats with ample appropriat
scientific knowledge and Appliances
nus lhat II has established peceti5nts thai
,ft department has been unnb!e TO estat
a.s. fhsy further charge that the depart